Yeah, I use cmd for building the APKs as it is free and only requires learning a bit of code. Pretty easy when you know how.
I did some fiddling around with some of the files and got it to work for the most part. The issue seems to be the "cordova-plugin-statusbar" plugin for Cordova.
I needed to re-add the status bar plugin in cordova and add "StausBar.hide();" to the "onDeviceReady()" condition in the index.html for the exported project. It's a bit weird that Construct2 doesn't add the StatusBar.hide() code automatically, but it doesn't take much to add it in.
It seems that cordova needs you to re-add existing plugins in order to get it to work for some reason?
Anyways, thanks for the help. If you need a hand with any projects let me know, I'm always happy to help.